You guys are gonna think I'm crazy, but it took me and a friend 7 hours to install my new headers. I found a set of OBX stainless steal headers on ebay for $118.00 and I couldn't resist.

It was cold and windy outside....and to be honest, the install was a pain in the butt. It was hard to reach some of the bolts and it was also pretty hard to put some of the bolts back in. I had to attatch and re-attatch the two pieces of the headers like three times cuz we couldn't get everything to match up for some reason. But after 7 LONG, cold hours....we got them to fit perfectly....and am pretty sure there are no leaks.

As for the performance gain....I can definately hear the difference and my high end definately feels a bit more peppy. I didn't get to drive it around too much tonight...since I'm pretty beat from working on it. Hopefully I'll get to enjoy it more tomorrow. So far....it was worth every penny. I'm also glad that I got to do the install rather than paying some shop to do it. Definately more rewarding....even though it was such a pain.

I can post pics....but i'm sure all of you know how headers look....i think SS headers look a LOT nicer than the CC ones....even though most people will never see them.

 

very niice....i really want headers but i dont konw if it's worth it..im a poor college boy

dp

 

dp you go to uga? if so...auburn is gonna kick uga's ass

 

You have to bend the pipe 1", right?

 

Its a lot easier to remove the cat as well as ur down there to give u some room with the headers. Install the header pipes first than the down pipe. Then bolt the cat on and then A pipe of the exhaust. It was simple for me once i got the stock headers off.

Good work BTW. Keep us updated on the performance gains. What did u do with the o2 sensor port at the top? Does it come with a plug? looks like they have a o2 port from what i see from all the pics on ebay.

 

Yea....the O2 port at the top I plugged up....the one on the down pipe...i obviously put the O2 sensor in.

 

no bending required....u thinkin of the 3.0 headers?

These were a perfect fit.

 

rofl! you gotta be kiddin me

 

Opps....You got my hopes up.

 

i thought u had a 3.0 when u said it took 7 hours. wtf took u so long. it took me a good long 4 hours for my 3.0 and those are a lot more harder to install.

 

did you get the ones for the accord 94-97?

 

Yea man....it definately shouldn't have taken that long!! I had a lot of problems with some of the bolts under the car. Some of the bolts were such a pain....maybe i just didn't have the right tools. Then i did the mistake of attatching the downpipe first....then the top wouldn't bolt onto my engine block. That sucked....so then I had to take it apart and do it over again.

We also had to make two separate runs to Advanced Auto Parts cuz we found out that we were missing a deep 12mm and 14mm socket....as well as a LONG extension. We also thought some PD blaster would definately help.

That freakin O2 sensor itself took about an hour to get off. That was on there pretty tight. We finally gave up and took it to Advanced Auto Parts....and they had a tool that took it right off.

So I guess you could say we ran into a lot of "little" setbacks....and we also ran outta daylight, so we were pretty much out in my parking lot with nothing but a mag light and a decently bright parking lot lamp right above us. So that made things a lil more tricky.

Started things up at 2:30pm and thought that we'd definately be done before dinner......dinner ended up being at 10pm.

 

Yup....that's the one.....

It was perfect fit....but just had problems making it fit perfectly if that makes any sense.

 

damn!!! see for me, the hour install of the COMPTECH Vs the hours of install bversus OBX makes the $1100.00 well worth it!!! but thats just me.. Im lazy and easily frustrated!!!

 

Wow....u paid $982 more than I did! I guess you could say my 7 hours of labor was worth about $982.

 

Congrats. It does feel really good when you do stuff yourself. Do you think you could give me a brief how to because i would really like to add some headers to my ride

 

LIMMERZ: can you do me a favor and check out the link below to see if thats the same ones that you have cuz i already bidded on them and i want to know if it will fit. thanks!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=1872134194

 

That's the exact same one from the same guy. He shipped it FAST! I wasn't expecting it till mid-next week, but it was sitting on my doorstep yesterday morning! It should fit perfectly. Hopefully the install will go a lot smoother for you!

 

Sure man....

here's a BRIEF how-to.

1. Unbolted and took off the heat shield for the stock headers.
2. Loosed the 12mm bolts that attatch the headers to the engine block.

3. The stock header is two pieces, so I unbolted the three 14mm bolts that attatched the top piece with the bottom piece.

4. Got under the car and took off the two spring bolts that attatch the downpipe to the cat.

5. Unbolted the other two spring bolts before the O2 Sensor.

6. Unbolted the metal plate that acts as a hanger for the headers.

7. Unplugged the 02 sensor. The O2 sensor is attatched to a 6 inch portion of the down pipe. It sits pretty between the cat and the header downpipe. You can take the whole piece off separately to unscrew the O2 sensor.

8. After everything is unbolted, take off the stock header.

9. When putting the new header in put the top piece in the engine bay and before mounting it on the engine block, bolt bottom piece to it from under the car.

10. Then after the two pieces are together, then mount the header onto the engine block with the 12mm bolts, and then continue attatching the bottom portion back to the cat.

11. Plug the O2 sensor into the port.

12. After everythings bolted back into place. Make sure you wipe down the upper portion of your headers with some dishwashing liquid or rubbing alcohol so that you don't have permant finger prints burned on your headers. Well that's only if you get Stainless Steel Headers.

13. Then start her up and check for exhaust leaks....

Okay that was not in a nutshell...that was long. I'm done.

 

thanks alot for your help. also did you feel any diffrence with the headers?

 

Don't you have a 3.0???

I think these headers are for a 4 cylinder.

 

I know thats why i asked him if it would fit. Damn now i hope i'll loose the bid.

 

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Limmerz: $118...sounds like you got a good deal....what do the 4 cyl OBX headers usually cost retail? just curious

 

taking off the stock header is 3/4 of the battle by far after that it took me bout 30 mins to get the car back to gether. i cleaned all the exhaust ports first though

 

Shoot Jay....didn't realize that you had the 3.0. Sorry bout that man....

 

7 hours!!! dayum kid .. took me around and hour of course i had acess to air tools and a full lift heheheh


hardest part was gettin the 3 bolts that connect both pipes together off

MaCe